Principal Law:

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

200 Cases found

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Order issued incorporating terms of stipulated settlement agreement, dismissing action with prejudice, and providing that court shall have continuing jurisdiction to enforce terms of agreement. [ 03/24/2020 ]
Description: Action to compel a listing determination under the Endangered Species Act for the emperor penguin.

Buffalo Field Campaign v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/15/2019 ]
Description: Action to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action in response to list the Yellowstone bison as an endangered or threatened distinct population segment of plains bison.

Living Rivers v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Utah
Status: Opening brief filed by plaintiffs. [ 06/17/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging approval of rights-of-way for construction and operation of commercial-scale oil-shale mine and processing plant.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Case dismissed pursuant to stipulated settlement agreement. [ 02/18/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to protect eight species under the Endangered Species Act.

Institute for Fisheries Resources v. Burwell

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Case remanded to the FDA without vacatur for reconsideration of the environmental assessment under NEPA and the ESA analysis in compliance with the court's ruling. [ 11/05/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the approval of a genetically engineered salmon for human consumption without adequate disclosure and consideration of environmental and other risks, including cumulative effects related to climate change.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement entered into by plaintiff and defendants. [ 10/11/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action under the Endangered Species Act with respect to 24 species.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Notice of dismissal filed after the defendants listed the Gulf of Mexico whale as endangered. [ 04/30/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel final listing determination under the Endangered Species Act for the Gulf of Mexico whale.

Save the Colorado v. Semonite

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 10th Cir.
Status: Dismissal of case reversed. [ 09/30/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to dam project in Boulder County in Colorado.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar

Filing Date: 2007
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 10/30/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to biological opinion analyzing impacts of Arizona military installation on endangered bird and plant, including for failure to consider climate change.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement so-ordered by court. [ 09/25/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to designate critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee.

Friends of Animals v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement filed. [ 12/21/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo.

Ksanka Kupaqa Xaʾⱡȼin v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: 2018 record of decision and 2019 supplement vacated and remanded to the agencies for additional consideration. [ 04/14/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that agencies violated the Endangered Species Act when they approved a silver and copper mine project in Montana in one of the last remaining undisturbed habitats in the region for the threatened grizzly bear and bull trout.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Approval of project vacated and action remanded. [ 12/07/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to federal actions authorizing oil and gas development project in the Beaufort Sea offshore of Alaska.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2003
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Memorandum decision and order issued denying plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, granting federal defendants' motion to dismiss in part, and denying federal defendants' motion for summary judgment on one claim, and delaying resolution of cross motions for summary judgment on two other claims. [ 09/28/2018 ]
Description: Endangered Species Act citizen suit challenging the renewal, implementation, and approval of renewal and implementation of certain long-term water contracts.